To the Rescue of a Tudor Beauty

07.05.10

Even in a neighborhood dotted with houses that sound antebellum Southern mansions, Swiss chalets and Italian villas, passers-by can’t help but linger to respect highly the decorative flourishes that adorn this rigorous dwelling.

The front porch, bordered by carved peacocks and grapevines, is accented with half-timbering and bricks arranged in a herringbone envisage. Gables and casement windows squint at out from under the steeply angled slate roof. A toss-metal Tudor rose ornaments the improbable brick chimney. Tendrils of ivy festoon the facade, as if the ill fame were dressed for a party.

Built in 1927 for an Italian-American unite builder named Eusebio Ghelardi, the shelter remained in his family until the death in the at an advanced hour 20th century of one of the last Ghelardis, an elderly domestic named Sylvia.

In the fall of 1997, the descendants was put on the market as an estate sale, at which but it came to the attention of Nathan Thompson and his trouble, Eva Lewandowski.

Mr. Thompson, who makes small screen commercials for McCann Erickson advertising energy, and Ms. Lewandowski, for 26 years the head of a girls’ summer bivouac in upstate New York, were charmed by the fortune. But the asking price of $395,000 was far more than they could provide.

Source: New York Times

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